Ticket-holder for car-seats



(No Model.)

A. E. MGDONALD. TICKET EOEDEE EOE GAE SEATS. No. 424,429.

Patented lvlar. 25, 1890.

Attorney.

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v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER E. MCDONALD, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

TICKET-HOLDER FOR CAR-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 424,429, dated March25, 1890.

Application iiled May 31, 1889.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I,ALEXANDER E. MCDON- ALD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, haveinvented certain Improvements in Ticket-Holders for Car-Seats, dac., ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to a device for holding tickets, conductors checks,&c., which is adapted to be secured to the back of a carseat; and theobject of the invention is to provide a holder adapted to receive twotickets or checks, so as to accommodate the two riders occupying theseat, and to construct the holder in such a manner that it cannot beinjured readily or easily by mischievous persons and cannot injure theclothing of the rider.

My invention will be fully described hereinafter and its novel featurescarefully defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrative of my invention, Figure l isa face view of a ticket-holder embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is alongitudinal horizontal mid-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a View, on asmall scale, of the back of4 a car-seat, showing the holders in positionthereon. This view is merely designed to illustrate the positions of theholders on the back of the seat and not to show the details ofconstruction of the holder. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 illustrate slightvariations in the construction of the holder that will be hereinafterdescribed.

I will first describe the holder as illustrated in Figs. l and 2 and asseen mounted in Fig. 3.

A represents the holder as a whole, and B represents the rear face ofthe back of a carseat on which they are mounted.

The holder when designed for double seats will be essentially double,two like ticketpockets being provided for the reception of the twotickets of the riders sitting in the seat that faces the holder.

a is a base-plate, preferably of metal, on which is mounted the spring,also preferably of metal, which forms the clasp for the tickets. Thisspring is somewhat in the shape of a bow, and comprises a central boss band two like blades or spring-fingers c c. The plate a is placed on theface B of the seat-back at the proper point, the spring is placedthereon, and the whole is secured to the back of the Serial No. 312,799.(No model.)

seat by a central screw d,which passes through the boss h of the spring,through the plate a, and enters the material of the seat-back. The bladec of the spring stands away from the boss b, but rests on the plate atits extremity, thus forming a tapered ticket-pocket e, which is clearlyillustrated in Fig. 2.

If the end of the blade c were left free entirely, so that the pocket ewas open at that end, the holder would be liable to damage both byaccident and with intent by mischievous persons, and this has been aserious objection to such holders as heretofore constructed. In order toavoid this, and at the same time provide a means for securing the end ofthe plate a iirmly to the back of the seat, I provide a screw f, with ashoulder formed on its shank at the proper distance from its head, andpass this screw through a hole in the end of the blade c and through acoincident hole in the plate cz. and screw it firmly into the materialof the back of the seat. that in the blade, and the shoulder on theshank of the screw f rests and bears on the plate a, while the blade cis left free to play to a limited extent. on the larger portion of theshank of the screw. The screw-head forms a keeper and limiting-stop t0vprevent mischievous persons from raising the end of the blade from theplate and bending it back, and it also prevents the clothing, ttc., ofthe rider or passenger from catching on the end of the blade and thusdamaging both the holder and the clothing.

The ticket in the drawings)is inserted at the wider part of theticket-pocket e and then pushed into the narrower part of the same, whenthe blade c will press elastically on it and hold it in place.

Both of the blades or spring-fingers c are provided with screws f in alike manner and form like ticket-pockets, and I have therefore onlydescribed one.v

To suit the convenience of both riders, I prefer to place the holder inthe middle of the seat, measured laterally, and near the edge thereof,and where the seat-backs are constructed to be turned overI place twoholders on each back, one near each edge thereof, as clearly representedin Fig. 3.

In Fig. 4L, which shows but half the holder The hole in the plate a issmaller than.

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' in section, similar to Fig. 2, I have illustrated a slightly-modifiedform of the holder, in which the extremity of the blade c is securedrigidly to the plate a by a screw fx, and the slight lexure of the bladethat is necessary to enable it to hold the ticket properly is obtainedby a bend or curve in the blade, as seen at g. This bend will besituated, by preference, at about the proportional distance from thescrew f represented in Fig. 4.

I prefer to employ a base-plate a, as the tucking of the tickets intothe pocket e would in time Wear away the pile of the plush which usuallycovers the back of the seat. Still the spring having the central bossand the two spring fingers or blades might be mounted directly on theback of the seat,as represented in Fig. 5, and especially on seat-backsnot covered with plush. Vhen the plate a is omitted, I prefer to employthe form ot' spring illustrated in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6, which is a sectional view like Fig. 4, illustrates anothermodiiied construction, wherein the screw f', which secures the end ot'plate a to the back of the seat, does not pass through the free end ofthe blade c, and the end of plate a is bent over so as to form a housingfor the free end of said blade. This bent end LX of plate a servessubstantially the same purpose as the head of the screw f in Figs. l and2 and forms a keeper and limiting-stop for the said blade.

Having thus described my invention, l claiml,

keeper at its free end, as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture,

a ticket-holder consisting of a base-plate, a

spring secured at its middle to said base-plate:

and having two blades extending in opposite directions from said middlepoint and resting at their ends on said plate, and keepers,substantially as described, for the ends of said blades, the latterforming two tapered ticketpockets e, as set forth.

3. In a ticket-holder, the combination, with the base-plate, of thespring consisting of the boss l), secured tothe base-plate, and theblades c, which rest on the said plate at their ends and form theticket-pockets, and the should ered and headed screws f, which passthrough coincident holes in the blades and base-plate, the ends of theblades being free to play on the shanks of their respective screws, asset forth. f

In witness whereof l have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ALEXANDER l1. MCDONALD.

Witnesses:

HENRY CoNNEr'r, J. D. CAPLINGER.

